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What you’ll do

Record a short video of your screen, let Cutaway remove the pauses and “um”s, and save it as a video file you can share.

Steps

1

Press New recording

It’s the purple button on the Projects screen.
2

Choose Display

In the bar at the bottom, Display records your whole screen.
3

Pick a layout

Screen + bubble shows your screen with your face in a small bubble. Pick Screen only if you don’t want your face in it.
4

Choose your camera and microphone

Click No camera and No microphone in the bar and pick yours.
5

Press Start recording

After the countdown, show what you want to show and talk as you go. Press stop on the small floating bar when you’re done.
6

Press First cut, then Create first cut

When you stop, a Recording saved box appears. Press First cut, then press Create first cut. Cutaway removes long pauses and filler words, and puts your video together.
7

Press Play to watch it

Or press the Space bar.
8

Press Export, then Export to file

Your video is saved as an MP4 file in Movies → Cutaway Exports.
Don’t worry about making mistakes while you record. Just pause, and say it again. You can cut out the bad take afterwards. See Cut out mistakes.

Next

Cut out mistakes

Remove words you didn’t mean to say.